About Rory

Writer, editor, musician, plain English evangelist, content ninja for hire, and general web guy, Rory does lots of things, when he has time...

Why web writing is relevant (and our November web writing course)

If you're not considering how your content is consumed on screen, you're ignoring a huge part of your audience—it's like writing a document, then hiding it...

By |2017-05-19T08:20:31+10:00September 22nd, 2015|Accessibility, Personal, Web writing|Comments Off on Why web writing is relevant (and our November web writing course)

And we’re back (Rory buys a printer)

Last night I dreamed of buying a printer. That’s a pretty crap dream, by any standard. Not only was the subject matter mundane and worky, but I couldn’t actually find the right printer. The study of dreams is called oneirology, which is a nice word—if a little heavy on the vowels—but this is the actual [...]

By |2017-05-19T08:20:31+10:00August 27th, 2015|Personal|Comments Off on And we’re back (Rory buys a printer)

Accessibility, conferences, chilli sauce, and web-writing courses

Much has been happening: I'm speaking about accessibility at the Queensland Business Writers' Conference, and we have our first public web-writing course booked.

By |2016-12-27T17:01:44+10:00July 8th, 2015|Accessibility, Personal, Web writing|Comments Off on Accessibility, conferences, chilli sauce, and web-writing courses

The difference between i.e. and e.g.

After raging ad-hoc, non-traditional apostrophe abuse, one of the most common mistakes an editor sees is people using 'i.e.' and 'e.g.' interchangeably. First things first: they are not interchangeable. Well, they may be interchangeable in some kind of surrealist anti-grammar situation, where the desired effect is to get your reader to tear out their tongue [...]

By |2017-10-03T08:29:33+10:00June 21st, 2015|Did you know, Grammar, Misused words|Comments Off on The difference between i.e. and e.g.

Word of the Day: Misology

Definition: a hatred of reason. A distrust of logical debate. Going far beyond plain old cognitive dissonance—the holding of conflicting viewpoints—misology seems to be quite popular.

By |2017-05-19T08:20:32+10:00June 18th, 2015|WOTD|2 Comments
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